Agile Health
- Jonathan Muse
- Shane Smith
Overview
The Agile Health report provides information regarding a set of Jira issues determined by a provided JQL query, including estimations, age, status, and versioning.
The Agile Health report is broken out into the following sections:
System Information
Report Summary
Health Checks
Epic/Story Health
Sprint Health
Version Health
System Information
The System Information section is designed to provide high-level details about the Jira instance for which the health report was run and is useful in the event there are multiple systems being monitored.
Report Summary
This section summarizes the number of checks run in the report and the number of passes and fails recorded by the report. It provides a high-level overview of the success of the checks run against the system.
Health Checks
Epic/Story Health
Information regarding statuses of epics and stories within the main filter.
Name | Description | Metric for Comparison | Lower Threshold* | Upper Threshold* | Pass/Fail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Unestimated issues | Finds issues that do not have a story point assigned. | Total number of stories | 0% | 10% | If percent of issues found is in between the upper and lower threshold the check will pass, else, fail. |
Epics without FixVersions | Finds epics that do not have a fix versions assigned. | Total number of epics | 0% | 10% | If percent of issues found is in between the upper and lower threshold the check will pass, else, fail. |
Orphaned Issues | Finds issues not assigned to an epic. | Total number of issues | 0% | 10% | If percent of issues found is in between the upper and lower threshold the check will pass, else, fail. |
Aging Issues > 90 Days | Finds open issues that were created more than 90 days ago. | Total number of issues | 0% | 10% | If percent of issues found is in between the upper and lower threshold the check will pass, else, fail. |
Aging Issues > 6 Months | Finds open issues that were created more than 6 months ago. | Total number of issues | 0% | 10% | If percent of issues found is in between the upper and lower threshold the check will pass, else, fail. |
Aging Issues > 1 Year | Finds open issues that were created more than 1 year ago. | Total number of issues | 0% | 10% | If percent of issues found is in between the upper and lower threshold the check will pass, else, fail. |
Orphaned Sub Tasks | Finds open subtasks that have a closed parent | Total number of sub-tasks | 0% | 10% | If percent of issues found is in between the upper and lower threshold the check will pass, else, fail. |
Treshold Values
The threshold values are just defaults and do not necessarily reflect best practices for agile or your organization. The values should be reviewed by your agile practice leaders.
Sprint Health
Information regarding statuses of the current sprints within the main filter.
Name | Description | Metric for Comparison | Lower Threshold* | Upper Threshold* | Pass/Fail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ambiguous Work in Current Sprint | Finds issues in open sprints that do not have a story point assigned. | Total number of issues in open sprints | 0% | 10% | If percent of issues found is in between the upper and lower threshold the check will pass, else, fail. |
Ambiguous Work in Future Sprints | Finds issues in future sprints that do not have a story point assigned. | Total number of issues in future sprints | 0% | 10% | If percent of issues found is in between the upper and lower threshold the check will pass, else, fail. |
Treshold Values
The threshold values are just defaults and do not necessarily reflect best practices for agile or your organization. The values should be reviewed by your agile practice leaders.
Version Health
Information about projects' versions associated to the main filter.
Name | Description | Metric for Comparison | Lower Threshold* | Upper Threshold* | Pass/Fail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Missed Releases in Projects | Finds unreleased versions were released after the scheduled release date. | Total number of unreleased versions for the specified projects | 0% | 10% | If percent of issues found is in between the upper and lower threshold the check will pass, else, fail. |
Unreleased Versions Missing Release Date | Finds unreleased versions that have a release date in the past. | Total number of unreleased versions for the specified projects | 0% | 10% | If percent of issues found is in between the upper and lower threshold the check will pass, else, fail. |
Allowed Number of Unreleased Versions | Finds the number of versions that are currently in progress. | Total number of unreleased versions for the specified projects | 0% | 10% | If percent of issues found is in between the upper and lower threshold the check will pass, else, fail. |
Treshold Values
The threshold values are just defaults and do not necessarily reflect best practices for agile or your organization. The values should be reviewed by your agile practice leaders.
Sample Report
